Read the following passage and answer the question. we none of us said anything, for we had woven about us a net of silence in whose meshes were precariously held our fears and our misgivings what is being personified in this passage? a silence b meshes c fears d misgivings

In this passage, silence is being personified. The correct answer is a).

Personification is a literary device in which the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics is given to something non-human, or to the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

In this case, silence is being described as a net where these two characters hold their fears and misgivings.

this answer was editing it cause i couldn't delete!

it would be d because the however is more proper and the comma is placed in the right spot